The fall of the Assad regime has sparked optimism that Syria can transition into a more free-market system, but its new leaders face the challenge of dismantling corruption and diversifying its ...

Brendan Smialowski/Reuters A woman stands on a street in a Kurdish town near Syria’s border with Turkey as smoke billows from tires burned to decrease visibility for Turkish warplanes.

Yes, Captagon is a popular drug, and is widely in circulation across major regions of the Middle East, with its origin reportedly being in Syria and Lebanon. (You can now subscribe to our Economic ...

The number of US troops in Syria has regularly surged higher than the Pentagon has publicly disclosed since at least 2020, and in recent months increased to more than double the roughly 900 troops ...

Over 100,000 people are believed to be buried in mass graves in Syria, exposing the ‘machinery of death’ run by the ousted President Bashar al-Assad. Thousands of people remain missing as families ...

On December 8, 2024, the 24-year reign of Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad came to an end after a rebel coalition of Al-Qaeda offshoots, Turkish proxies, and other Islamist militants overwhelmed the ...

The Syrian military defector codenamed Caesar, who smuggled out more than 53,000 haunting images showing tortured, emaciated corpses of Syrian detainees – evidence that led to landmark sanctions ...

The ousted Syrian president claims to have had no intention of leaving and denounced the country's new leaders. Meanwhile, the EU named a diplomat to lead its contact efforts with the new rulers.

JERUSALEM — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan could be on the brink of engulfing Syria in a new war with his slated invasion of the country’s north in an effort to decimate the U.S ...

A little over a week after taking power, the rebel alliance that led the overthrow of the Assad regime has begun to receive diplomats in the Syrian capital, Damascus. By Vivian Yee Reporting from ...

Israel Says It Destroyed Syria’s Navy, Part of Wave of Post-Assad Attacks Israel says it is striking Syrian military sites to keep them out of “the hands of extremists.” The rebels who ...